SCHOOLS IN NAPIER.
IBY TELEGRAPH.) (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Napier, January 19: ■ At a meeting of the Education Board to-day it was stated that the overdraft practically absorbed the whole of the building grant. Many schools are disgracefully overcrowded. While the Board sat, a telegram came saying that at Hastings |50 children were m a school calculated for 170^ and three had alteady been carried but fainting that morning. The inspector stated that the average attendarioe m the schools ottbe Education, distric.^was 116 /for; every 1 100 places provided. Mr Ormond, the [Chairman, jemarkpd that the 8.0ar4
could not fnl6l its functions owing to want of building funds, and advocated local rating powers if Parliament could not vote snfficient funds.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 69, 20 February 1884, Page 3
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119SCHOOLS IN NAPIER. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 69, 20 February 1884, Page 3
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